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Monday, December 29, 2008

Monday, December 29, 2008

"Sweetie, I get the feeling your father has been a little impatient for us to have a boy.""Why do you say that, hon?""Oh, you know, all the baseball equipment for the girls' birthdays...""They loved those!""And the football helmets...""Once we painted the tiaras on they wore them all day.""And you know earlier, when we told him we were having a boy this time? I'm sure that back flip couldn't have been good for his arthritis.""Oh, he was just being cute, is all. I'm sure the thought of us having a boy is no more exciting for him than the thought of our having another girl.""Riiight. Have you seen the cake?""He bought a cake?"

[silence]"Er. Does he think we're naming the baby Finaly?""That's supposed to say "finally", dear.""Oooooh."[more silence]"So, do you want to tell him we were joking, or shall I?"

Because nothing says "We're having a boy after many attempts" like monkeys in a tree? Or a lion on a bunch of green? Or an elephant stranded in a pool? (OK, maybe that one is better suited to the situation...)

Word verification: langsp, an abbreviation for language and spelling issues observed on cakes

My husband is one of five boys, then his mom gave birth to triplet girls. We were warned to quit trying for that girl. That cake is too funny. But, instead of animals, you'd think they'd put boy stuff on it---hunting and fishing gear.

Besides the spelling, why would someone request that on a cake? WEIRD! Wopuldn't something more like "Third time's a charm" or "Damn, you finally got it right?" be better? That's obviously what they were thinking! HA!

Grampa is a rude, insensitive boor.I would NOT serve that cake anywhere near the new baby's sisters, IF I accepted it at all. In fact, I would be tempted to get Gramps a cake of his own saying, "Finaly (sic)--the granddaughters know where they really stand with Grandpa! Stick this cake up your***!"=^@@^=

I used to know a couple who kept trying until they had a boy, as their fifth child. By then, the oldest girl was old enough to know what was happening. I tried talking to the couple about how obvious they were about it, but they didn't see anything wrong.

I really hate this attitude; the boy is soo important, FINALLY. So screw the previous kids, since they're just girls; we FINALLY have a BOY! oooo. Like my lovely neighbors, who have 5 kids. The last one is a BOY--oooo. FINALLY. I wonder what kind of crappy complexes all their unimportant girls have. Jerks.

If I ever had a baby boy, that's EXACTLY what my father would be thinking. He already had three granddaughters seven years ago when I got pregnant, and I swear the first thing he said when I told him was "Maybe it'll be a boy this time!"

I think I prefer the approach of the Monds family: when they "finaly" got their baby boy, instead of requesting this downer of a cake the father (or was it grandfather?) proclaimed, "Wonderful! Terrific!" That became the boy's name, and he passed the name down to his son and grandson, who both played professional sports for a short period of time (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:List_of_unusual_personal_names#Wonderful_Terrific_Monds_III).Still feel a little sorry for the sisters, though.

Add me to the list of people who feel sorry for the boy's sisters; after they cut the cake, Grandpa should just tell them that they've always been a disappointment to him, what with their dirty, nasty girl-parts, conniving ways, and inferior intelligence.

okay, i had to post on this on! besides the obvious references to the green poo icing, poor grammar, etc.... my eldest child is named Finley and his name is ALWAYS pronnounced and often misspelled Finely by strangers!

Perhaps they're trying to get across two messages in one cake. "Finaly, a baby!" after trying for so long we're going to be parents, and "It's a boy". But then there was going to put too much writing on the cake. Now to find a way to shorten it...

Of course they could have 5 daughters and really want to balance the family but I find the first explenation moor likley.

Or mabye they mentioned that a boy would be nice this time and the person ordering the cake decided this was what theu where most excited about.

Ok guys, just a thought. Instead of thinking so negatively . . . As the eldest of four girls, I know that if my mom had delivered her last baby and it had been a boy, all of us girls would have been just as excited as the rest to "finally have a boy"! Maybe the sisters in question feel that way as well? Just a thought!

I am one of 5 kids, only the 4th eldest is a boy. My parents made no bones about the fact that they kept having children just to have a boy (they went one more hoping for two) and I could have totally seen a cake like this being served when my brother was born, after all, plenty of people said it.

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